SATURDAY LETTERS: Assistance to veterans deeply appreciated

After four years of active service in the Marine Corps, our son was honorably discharged during last summer and immediately enrolled back into college for the fall semester.

He completed the required paperwork to apply for and receive his veteran benefits under the POST 9/11 GI Bill, however the financial aid did not come. Our son made multiple calls to the VA office and was continually told his paperwork was being processed.

On Jan. 26 I had the good fortune of meeting Janet Qureshi and Vida Swarers with U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady's mobile office in Silsbee. They were very interested in my son's problem and said they would work to resolve it.

Within several days I received a call from Brady's office that the issue was resolved and that our son would be receiving his benefits. And, as promised, the benefits arrived.

Today we do have a good college benefit program for our veterans but clearly it needs some tweaking. A big thank you to Janet and Vida for taken our problem seriously and for Congressman Brady to making the effort for his mobile field offices to be so available to the public.

Mic Cowart, Lumberton

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